Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...

Examples of depictions include two nuns holding robes and glasses of wine with their eyes shut in ecstasy, and priests shown licking Christ's nailed feet while he is hanging on the crucifix.

Yakir Englander, a philosopher, had taught about Maimonides’ theory of teshuvah, or repentance, in which the medieval scholar laid out three requirements: to acknowledge error, to express regret ...

Here are just a selection of them. Among the University’s first flood of female graduates, Helen Waddell was a respected medieval scholar, translator, poet, dramatist and novelist. Her 1965 obituary ...

I first encountered Martha C Nussbaum in 1987. She was a guest on Bryan Magee’s BBC television series The Great Philosophers. In each programme, Magee would interview a leading contemporary ...

The Ecocritical Studies Research Workshop (ESRW) is an interdisciplinary initiative connecting faculty and graduate scholars who are working on intersections ... informal presentations at our meetings ...

Mel Storm described Jim Hoy as possibly the only bronc rider to have earned a doctorate in medieval literature. Storm, now a retired professor of English, came to ESU in the 1971, where he quickly ...